This is a translation of Gombin: Dos Lebn un Umkum fun a Yidish Shtetl in Poyln
(Gombin: The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Town in Poland),
Editors: Jack Ziklin, et al., New York, Gombiner Landsmanschaft in America,
1969 (English and Yiddish 390 pages).

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The Yiddish part, translated to Hebrew by my late father, Meir Holtzman, who
was born in Gombin 1914 and left the shtetl on July 1939. He died 16
September 1998, before seeing his work, for which he dedicated the last months
of his life, completed and published in Hebrew. He was very hopeful that the
Yizkor book will be published in Hebrew so that descendants from Gombin will
learn about the heritage of their ancestors, their life in the shtetl, their
dreams and their tragedy... He worked very hard to achieve this, but his sudden
illness followed by his death, kept him from seeing this project fulfilled.
This web page is dedicated to his memory.